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		_dh54 on Dec 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (2015) Lower latency is a strong motivating reason to use a serial terminal over anything connected over usb/double buffered display.

rbanffy on Dec 25, 2020 | [–]

It's a personal thing, but I am not that annoyed by the delay between a key press and a character comes up on the screen. OTOH, I still remember how pleasing were 3270's compared to serial terminals on 9600 shared links.

WalterGR on Dec 24, 2020 | [–]

Even with flow control? Do you have a link to perf numbers?

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